Know Your Opponent: Hapoel Jerusalem

Tonight (20:50) Hapoel HaEmek play their final game of the regular season against their play-off quarter-final opponents, Hapoel Jerusalem, in Round 26 of the Winner League.

Jerusalem have won three of their last four games, and go into the match in fourth place with a 17-8 record. In the previous round HaEmek won 69-65.

The Jerusalem side recently released Anthony Lamb, signed Tzuf Ben Moshe and, for the first time since the outbreak of the war, brought Austin Wiley, Josiah Gordon James and Isaiah Mobley back to Israel.

The visitors' standout players so far this season are Harper, averaging 18.1 points and 6.8 assists per game, Carrington with 14.5 points, Smith with 14 points and 5.7 rebounds, Winston with 13.8 points and Wiley (one game since his return), who is averaging 10.6 points and 9.2 rebounds.

Although the play-off series between them has already been settled regardless of the result of this game, both sides want to finish one place higher than their current standing and head into the play-offs with positive momentum.